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Podcast: Psychedelic Salon
Episode: Podcast 332 – “Living in the Exile Nation”
Description: Guest speaker: Charles Shaw
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[NOTE: All quotations are by Charles Shaw.]
“Having a felony conviction, and having a drug conviction, essentially makes you a second class citizen.”
“For the lower classes, the poorer classes, which generally in this country are people of color, drug laws have always been used as a way to control them.”
“And if you take away the distinction between tobacco and alcohol and cannabis and cocaine or alkaloids or whatever, what you've got is a war against altering consciousness.”
“But what they're trying to stop more than anything is ideas. Beca...